January 19, 2016 DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced a new breakthrough process with the potential to expand the materials landscape in the 21st century with exciting and truly novel, high-performance renewa…

January 14, 2016Ferro Corporation announced that it has purchased 100% of the equity of privately held Istanbul-based Ferer Dis Ticaret Ve Kimyasallar Anonim Sirketi A.S. for approximately $9.0 million in cash, on a cash-free and debt-free basis, subject to wo…

January 11, 2016Ashland is transforming its technical and analytical services for the paint and coatings industry by adding a dedicated laboratory to its campus in Wilmington, Delaware. The new 2,000-square-foot facility complements the company’s existing 8,00…

December 30, 2015Evonik Industries is building a new production plant for specialty copolyesters at its Witten site in Germany. As binders for paints, specialty copolyesters are used in coil coatings and, increasingly, in food can coatings. The company is investing a…

December 30, 2015New production plants, modernized infrastructure facilities, involvement in research and development (R&D): This year, Evonik once again demonstrated its considerable power to create at its German sites. According to a recent projection, the comp…

December 24, 2015Air Products filed an initial Form 10 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to move forward the previously announced spin-off of its Materials Technologies business, which will be named Versum Materials.
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December 22, 2015CPI spin out company Primary Dispersions Limited has announced extremely promising results from a UK collaboration that aims to commercialise specialist graphene based epoxy resins for the aerospace industry.
The InnovateUK project titled ‘N…

December 18, 2015J.M. Huber Corporation, through its Huber Engineered Materials (HEM) division, has reached an agreement to acquire the Martinswerk mineral flame retardants and specialty chemicals businesses of Albemarle Corporation. The transaction is subject to cus…

December 17, 2015Solvay has successfully completed the acquisition of Cytec and will immediately begin the integration of Cytec’s businesses to deliver cost synergies and capture significant business opportunities in advanced lightweighting materials for the ae…

December 17, 2015W. R. Grace & Co., a global innovator in technologies for industrial and specialty coatings, is launching Syloid A matting agents for the architectural market to meet consumer demand for high-performance, low-gloss paints. This is the company&rsq…

December 15, 2015Huber Carbonates, LLC, a subsidiary of J.M. Huber Corporation, has announced that it is substantially increasing capacity at its ground calcium carbonate (GCC) operation in Marble Hill, Georgia.
“Huber has a long-term, multi-stage plan to in…

December 14, 2015The Dow Chemical Company announced the signing of definitive agreements to restructure the ownership of Dow Corning Corporation. Unanimously approved by Dow’s board of directors, the transaction is highly complementary to the strategic objectiv…

December 11, 2015LANXESS held its second LANXESS Pigments Symposium in Shanghai, China, on November 19, 2015. The topic this year was, “The global pigments industry in transition – Turning challenges into sustainable value creation,” and the Inorgan…